China space mission story hits Web before launch | World | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle — So who wins with this story? The folks who promote the idea that we never landed on the moon. A news story describing a successful launch of China’s long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on [...]
EA is to face a class action lawsuit apparently, after plaintiffs have emerged who allege that the SecuROM copy protection used in Spore breaches consumer law. The copy protection system used in Spore is one of many games lately using the SecuROM DRM system, with others including EA’s Mass Effect, Crysis Warhead and Take Two’s [...]
Crysis Wars Review Platform: PC -Comes with Crysis Warhead Multiplayer is another area that has been re-vamped in Crysis Warhead, though not dramatically as some might want you to think actually. There’s been a lot of fuss made over the new Crysis Wars game, which has been billed as pretty much a game in its [...]
Wouldn’t it be nice that someday America would one day be able to buy 6x BD-Rs for these 6x Blu-ray burners without relying on a Japanese importer, and today, that dream has been realized. Imation is bringing TDK Life on Record media to US soil, marking the first time 6x Blu-ray recordable (BD-R) and Blu-ray [...]
PALM BAY, Fla. — A budget crunch in Palm Bay could mean city residents who forget to secure car doors or close garages will get only a case number and nothing in terms of a visit by patrol officers if something is stolen. The possible policy revision is part of a wider cost-cutting look at [...]
The second-gen TouchSmart IQ500s just arrived in July, but HP isn’t sitting still – say hello to the new TouchSmart IQ800 series. Both the new TouchSmart IQ804 and IQ816 feature a 25.5-inch 1920 x 1200 touchscreen with various TouchSmart-specific apps, a TV tuner with remote, integrated webcam, Bluetooth, HP Pocket Media drive bay, and an [...]
This 1936 Henderson motorcycle was given a superb Art Deco mod by Frank Westfall of Syracuse, NY and displayed at last summer’s Rhinebeck Grand National Meet. The Knucklebuster blog got to see and photograph it in person there, and has a thrilling account of its performance: “The bike is a fantastic piece of history, the [...]